Progress on Self-Driving Cars

At a recent demonstration of Google's driverless car technology in Mountain View, the press spoke with several experts including Alain Bertaud, a Senior Scholar at one of Marron's NYU partners, the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. Bertaud feels that the traditional modes of urban transport—public transit and individual vehicles—suffer from major inefficiencies, particularly the inability to adapt to changing trip patterns in the modern metropolis. He sees potential for driverless cars to complement mass transit in ways that improve urban mobility. From a New York Times piece on Google's latest driverless car demonstration:

Read the full piece here.